WVC 29 - 22 - 15
§29-22-15. Payment of prizes to minors.
If the person entitled to a prize or any winning ticket is
under the age of eighteen years, and such prize is less than five
thousand dollars, the director may direct payment of the prize by
delivery to an adult member of the minor's family or a legal
guardian of the minor of a check or draft payable to the order of
the minor. If the person entitled to a prize or any winning
ticket is under the age of eighteen years, and the prize is five
thousand dollars or more, the director may direct payment to the
minor by depositing the amount of the prize in any bank to the
credit of an adult member of the minor's family or a legal
guardian of the minor as guardian for the minor. The person so
named as guardian shall have qualified under and shall have the
same duties and powers as a person designated as a guardian in
the manner as provided in article ten, chapter forty-four of this
code. The commission and director shall be discharged of all
further liability upon payment of a prize pursuant to this
section.

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